The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival has officially come and gone, with this year’s People’s Choice Award going to Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut American Fiction, and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers (see below) and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron … Continue reading Toronto International Film Festival 2023, Part 2: Days 4-8
After four long years away, I returned with Mama Mordor in tow to the Toronto International Film Festival at an acute transitional moment. Paralyzed by strikes from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA that contemptuous billionaire studio executives have shown remarkably little … Continue reading Toronto International Film Festival 2023, Part 1: Days 1-3
Bisexual Lighting: The Movie Continue reading LGBT Movies: Passages (2023)
Once in a blue moon, if you’re lucky, a book hits all the right notes: you pick it up, immediately dive deep into its world, fall hard for its characters, and don’t look back. For me, Casey McQuiston’s debut novel … Continue reading LGBT Books: Someday My Prince Will Come – “Red, White & Royal Blue” and Modern Gay Fairytales
Outfest LA 2023 formally ended on July 23 – though virtual screenings continue through July 30 – amidst major turmoil for the film industry. With the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America continuing to strike in the largest … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Outfest LA 2023, Part 2
Outfest LA 2023 opened on July 13 (virtual screenings start today, July 17) amidst major turmoil for the film industry. With the Screen Actors Guild joining the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike in the largest labor action in the … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Outfest LA 2023, Part 1
Happy Pride, everyone! Welcome back to the first ever (as far as I know!) poll of The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ Books! In the end, 43 lists were submitted, comprising an unbelievable 257 books representing LGBT+ experiences of all stripes and … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ Books: The Results
Welcome to the first ever (as far as I know!) poll of The Avocado’s favorite LGBT+ books! Over the next few weeks, the most astute readers anywhere on the internet (that’s you!) will be submitting their ballots, culminating at the … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ Books: The Voting
Well Avocadoans, we’ve arrived at two important milestones in this year’s Oscars race: firstly, the Oscars air this Sunday! More importantly, though, after three years Covid has finally made its way to Barad-dûr and your pal Mordor is not a … Continue reading The Road to the 95th Oscars Part 2: Predicting the Winners
Why bury your gays when you can make them bury each other? You may find yourself contemplating that question after seeing M. Night Shyamalan’s latest, the tense and morally muddy Knock at the Cabin. Based on Paul G. Tremblay’s 2018 … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with Everything Everywhere All at Once, Top Gun: Maverick, The Fabelmans, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Avatar: The Way of Water aiming to be this year’s most-nominated … Continue reading 95th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread
It’s hard to believe that Oscar nominations are already upon us, but it really is that time of year again! The Academy will be pretending to have their finger on the pulse of the film industry bright and early tomorrow, … Continue reading The Road to the 95th Oscars Part 1: Predicting the Nominees
Welcome back to the first ever poll of The Avocado’s favorite LGBT+ TV and web series! In the end, 42 lists were submitted (a bit of a drop from the 57 lists that were received for the film list), comprising … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ TV and Web Series: The Results
Welcome to the first ever (as far as I know!) poll of The Avocado’s favorite LGBT+ TV and web series! Over the next few weeks, the most astute viewers anywhere on the internet (that’s you!) will be submitting their ballots, … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ TV and Web Series: The Voting
Welcome back to the first ever (as far as I know!) poll of The Avocado’s favorite LGBT+ films! In the end, 57 lists were submitted, comprising a whopping 237 movies representing LGBT+ experiences of all stripes and from every corner … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ Films: The Results
A year after Nomadland made its way largely unopposed to monumental Best Picture and Director wins for Chloe Zhao, Jane Campion’s subversive Western The Power of the Dog has hit a major roadblock en route to what was looking like … Continue reading The Road to the 94th Oscars Part 2: The Triumph of the Dog?
Welcome to the first ever (as far as I know!) poll of The Avocado’s favorite LGBT+ films! Over the next few weeks, the most astute movie watchers anywhere on the internet (that’s you!) will be submitting their ballots, culminating in … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favorite LGBT+ Films: The Voting
Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with The Power of the Dog, Dune, West Side Story, Licorice Pizza, and Belfast aiming to be this year’s most-nominated films. You can … Continue reading 94th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread
Welcome back, for the first time this season, to The Road to the Oscars! At the time this post goes live, we will be exactly 24 hours from the announcement of the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards. At 8:18 … Continue reading The Road to the 94th Oscars, Part 1: Twas the Day Before Noms…
Welcome back to LGBT Movies: Mordor Reviews Outfest LA 2021! Throughout this week, I’m posting my thoughts on more than 70 (!!) of the 170+ (!!!!) short and feature films that screened at this year’s virtual edition of Outfest LA … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Outfest LA 2021 – Final Thoughts
Welcome back to LGBT Movies: Mordor Reviews Outfest LA 2021! Throughout this week, I’m posting my thoughts on more than 70 (!!) of the 170+ (!!!!) short and feature films that screened at this year’s virtual edition of Outfest LA … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Outfest LA 2021 – Shorts Edition
